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In one of my early devils advocate posts on this thread I said anyone who had attended a home game this season should get a ticket.
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Thread: LC Final Tickets
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22-11-2021 11:29 PM #361
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22-11-2021 11:30 PM #362This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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22-11-2021 11:31 PM #364
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22-11-2021 11:32 PM #365This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Enjoy the game ya radge.
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22-11-2021 11:33 PM #366This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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22-11-2021 11:34 PM #367
It's been fun being the devils advocate this evening but sadly my time is now up.
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22-11-2021 11:35 PM #368
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22-11-2021 11:36 PM #369This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
See you at the final.
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22-11-2021 11:37 PM #370This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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22-11-2021 11:40 PM #371
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Winning a cup is one of the best ways to increase ST sales and thereby, home attendances? What you're advocating is giving Celtic an advantage and therefore reducing our chances of winning it.
Plus, the "day trippers", as you call them, are surely the target market for the club who'll be aiming to convert them into regular goers / season ticket holders. If they're not deserving of a ticket then the club's chances of converting them is greatly reduced.
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22-11-2021 11:44 PM #372
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22-11-2021 11:47 PM #373This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
"folk from Australia and America etc who pay a subscription for Hibs TV. They support the club so would be eligible for a cup final ticket".
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22-11-2021 11:50 PM #374This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
The bottom line here is as I said before an absolutely fundamental issue of fair play. Where it's obvious a club cannot sell a full allocation EG ..Ross County, Livvi that sort of thing then fair enough it makes sense to give a realistic allocation. But, there is absolutely no evidence that Hibs are not capable of shifting 23,000, in fact a raft of evidence that we can do so and that being the case it is absolutely unfair that we are not at least being given the chance.
The rules of the competition as I understand it state that the final will be played at a neutral venue ..... What makes home advantage home advantage is not just playing on your own pitch but also an assumption that you will have the majority of the crowd on your side. If Covid proved anything it was that the crowd was the main factor in what makes home advantage an advantage ... with no crowds many club's away record improved, not least amongst them Hibs.
I for one am really really angry that Hibs have caved into this. They state their unhappiness at the decision in that statement, but in my opinion it doesn't go nearly far enough ... They should state in no uncertain terms that the SPFL have taken a step that is far from justifiable given this club's proven ability to shift enough tickets to justify a 50/50 split and that in sporting terms as far as this club is concerned the SPFL have handed an advantage to our opponents for that final.
Aye ok, if they cave in and we fail to shift all the tickets then we end up with egg on our face .... but that is the very last thing we should be considering at this point.
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22-11-2021 11:56 PM #375
I am sorry but the fundamental issue here is how competitive is Scottish Football? At the moment Rangers dominate. They have proved to be ***** in recent years in knock-out competitions. But that is not enough. I get the impression that the Scottish Football authorities would e really like Celtic to win a trophy to maintain competitiveness . If the authorities still want to maintain this hegemony then fine. Count me out!
The whole bloody edifice is rigged from the start. There is no need for further manipulation. I do not feel inclined to pay money to support this shambles.
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23-11-2021 12:06 AM #376
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I think the 2017 LC semi v Celtic where we asked for and got a lot more tickets than we ended up selling has possibly played a part in the decision. Celtic will no doubt have reminded the SPFL of that, though IIRC the SPFL botched the order in which we were allowed to put the blocks on sale which meant our unsold tickets couldn't be given to Celtic.
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23-11-2021 12:08 AM #377This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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23-11-2021 12:26 AM #378This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Re the cup, we did well on Sunday with the hardcore 10,000 supporters at the game cheering the team on.
The SPFL have subsequently decided in all the circumstances that Hibs should receive an extra 7,500 tickets for the final and folk on here are outraged.
I get it from a fairness point of view but I also saw Celtic sign a fantastic player from Japan in the summer for millions of pounds while we signed a kid from Raith Rovers for £100k who can't make it until January which strikes at any sense of any real sporting integrity.
Hopefully every Hibs supporter who has more than a passing interest in the team can get a ticket for the final.Last edited by CMurdoch; 23-11-2021 at 12:44 AM.
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23-11-2021 01:08 AM #379
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23-11-2021 01:26 AM #380This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Day trippers as folk like to call them are exactly why this club can sell allocations of 23,000 for cup finals. Who cares what sort of 'fans' make up our cup final crowds, there is barely a club on the planet that doesn't rely on casual supporters when it comes to cup finals ...... I can't believe anybody on here is in any way trying to argue that this decision by the SPFL can in any way be justified.
The only reason they are doing this is because they can guarantee a sell out if they give Celtic the majority of the tickets. That is an affront to the final as a sporting contest played on a level playing field. Celtic already hold an advantage by being able to field a team considerably more expensive than anything we could put on the park, they hold an advantage because the final is being played in their city ...... There's nothing Hibs or the SPFL can do about that.
What they can do is to ensure that the things they do have control over to make the final as fair as it can be are applied. Front and centre to that is to ensure both clubs have the same level of support on the day if at all possible .... In this case it is possible and yet they have chosen to hand the club who already hold most of the aces another advantage, even in the face of one of the clubs in this final asking for a 50/50 split.
That is so blatantly unfair that in my opinion it is tantamount to at best bringing the game into disrepute, at worst match fixing and that is exactly what Hibs should be saying about it ... and very very publicly.
FFS .... For once can this bloody club show some balls !!!
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23-11-2021 04:18 AM #381
I'm not even home from the semi final yet and might not get a final ticket.
Joke really. They are pretty much saying celtic fans are more important than Hibs fans!Cougars!!!
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23-11-2021 05:28 AM #382This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Mental.
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23-11-2021 05:56 AM #383This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I hope this isn’t the last of this.
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23-11-2021 05:59 AM #384This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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23-11-2021 06:10 AM #385
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Maybe we'll try to tie it up with half season tickets
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23-11-2021 06:19 AM #386This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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23-11-2021 06:26 AM #387
I live in Ireland and I’d love to be at this final. But equally the only match I’ve been to this season was away at Dens Park. I pay into HSL. Don’t want to take a ticket away from a hibby that deserves it more.
don’t know if I’ve any chance of getting a ticket, or whether morally I should even apply for one.
dilemma.
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23-11-2021 06:34 AM #388This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Strangely Dundee Away is my only live game this season. Best believe I’ll be looking to go.
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23-11-2021 06:35 AM #389
Hoping my eight game package thing will count for something in how tickets for the final are sold.
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23-11-2021 06:39 AM #390
It should be 50/50 initially, and the pricing is an utter scandal. Where are the student prices? £40 unless you want one of the crap seats. What a disgrace, and the SPFL saying that they’d frozen prices since 2019 - nobody went to the final in 2020!!
The only consolation is that ultimately Hibs will benefit from it but really I’d rather we made less from the game than feel like we’re being bent over again with the prices.Follow the Hibs podcast, Longbangers, on Twitter (@longbangers)
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